Our programmes for professionals
Liberating. Limits.
“I have moved more in three days with my thoughts and beliefs than my previous 23 years.”
Over the years we’ve worked with more than thousands of adults: from children’s services, youth charities and housing associations to university directorates, school leadership teams and businesses. Time and again they tell us, “We wanted different results. Grit was different.”
The Grit training model brings staff together in an exploration of the limiting beliefs, attitudes and cultures that underlie how they operate at work, both individually and collectively.
As staff begin to examine the influences and limitations dictated by their past experiences, opinions and judgments, they become more liberated to see new choices.
This is a process of inquiry which at once challenges and supports staff to make breakthroughs relating to culture, teamwork, performance and relationships.
Independent evaluators have highlighted how the Grit professional training increases “staff confidence and aspiration” and that it is this change in self-perception that ensures that the “impact on their ability to support young people is very strong.”
92% participants are able to work more effectively together as a team
82% achieve more in their work with young people
Our commissioners.
These short films give voice to those who commission Grit for their professional teams, explaining how it has worked for them, why Grit is different and the impact they have seen.
Our impact.
Senior Local Authority Leader
“There were so many extraordinary moments in the workshop. From that initial uncertainty … to the gradual unfurling and elation as I began to discover things in myself as well as witness the impact on those around me. It was incredibly invigorating, giving me a different way to address relationships, challenges, self-reflection, team building and learning. I was energised to begin tackling all those intractable things that had been bugging me for so long.”
Director of Children’s Services
“I saw colleagues change before my eyes: the reluctant and the self-critical suddenly putting themselves forward at every opportunity. Colleagues re-energised, re-enthused and rediscovering their passion for making a difference, taking ownership and taking control.
We gained a common language, a new way of working embraced by everyone. And we delivered: on integration, on new ways of working, on improvement.”